Monitoring Applications

River Water

Monitoring of river water is essential to maintain water quality. Human activities and products are almost exclusively responsible for pollution. Industrial sites, urban infrastructure and development, agriculture, transport, and deliberate or accidental pollution all adversely affect river water quality. Geology also plays a significant role with naturally occurring metals released into river water during geological activity or adverse weather such as rains and storms.

Good river water quality is essential to maintain the biological health and diversity of species in our rivers Fish are known to accumulate heavy metals to toxic levels if present in their habitat and since many rivers are also used as sources for human drinking water heavy metal concentrations are an important factor in determining treatment processing and costs.

Government Environmental Protection Agencies are addressing river water quality and setting stringent regulatory standards. Real time monitoring helps ensure compliance by allowing rapid identification of pollution sources. In turn this allows rapid treatment or removal before the pollution becomes a threat to either aquatic or human health.

Cogent Environmental provides online, laboratory and portable solutions for real time monitoring of heavy metals in river water. Our experience has resulted in the development of an unrivalled range of monitoring technologies, examples of which are listed above.

Contact us for further information or if your desired application is not present, as many of our applications are developed on request.